Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIf you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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